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It’s usually fairly impressive when an actor portrays several roles within the same film, and in light of Sam Rockwell’s impressive turn in the recent existentialist space story Moon, Vulture has created a listicle of the 10 Greatest Multiple-Role Performances in Movie History. Obviously, Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove was a shoe-in for number one, [...]

Honing in on the strange bonds of twin-hood, Unreality’s David Madison offers a listicle of 8 Memorable Movie Twins, including the such terrific pairings as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. Of course, more than rumored telekinesis between siblings, we find the uncanny doppelganger effect of identical twinning to be [...]

Hollywood seems intent on gutting the TV Guide archives for script ideas. Sometimes these small-screen-to-big-screen endeavors work (The Fugitive), sometimes they don’t (A Night at the Roxbury), and sometimes they really, really don’t (Bewitched). Here are the upcoming and rumored adaptations that better not ruin my memories:

The A-Team Oh, A-Team movie, my requests are few: [...]

Though all the news and listicles of late has been about green transportation alternatives, high-speed trains and fuel-efficient cars, there remains something to be said for a big-budget collision between gas- or diesel-guzzling behemoths. No, we’re not talking about NASCAR, but about movie car crashes, whose alternations between realism, excess and stylizing often make for [...]